Release Notes for Apache Helix 0.6.8

The Apache Helix team would like to announce the release of Apache Helix 0.6.8.

This is the eleventh release under the Apache umbrella, and the seventh as a top-level project.

Helix is a generic cluster management framework used for the automatic management of partitioned, replicated and distributed resources hosted on a cluster of nodes. Helix provides the following features:

Automatic assignment of resource/partition to nodes

Node failure detection and recovery

Dynamic addition of Resources

Dynamic addition of nodes to the cluster

Pluggable distributed state machine to manage the state of a resource via state transitions

Automatic load balancing and throttling of transitions

Detailed Changes

Feature

[Helix-656] Support customize batch state transition thread pool.

Support cancel tasks with synchronized check task status.

Add support of setting/updating Cluster/Resource/Instance configs in ConfigAccessor.

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